Re: ANSI C clarifications, with citations (was Re: [patch-2.4

[Larry McVoy]

> > Cast a char * to int * on any architecture with strong alignmenmt
> > restrictions and watch your code commit messy suicide.
> 
> No.  It is "cast a char * to int * _and_dereference_it_".  He never
> told about dereferencing.  Freely casting between different pointers
> types works perfectly on most if not all modern[1] architectures

Agreed, but if you are laying down guidelines about what is portable
don't you think it should have read "cast any pointer to any pointer **but
derefencing the pointer may not work**"?  The point is that people will
take those statements at face value and they are hardly the guidelines
that you should be advertising.  At least that's my point.